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Strong growth, driven by consumption and public investment, has continued. Macroeconomic stability is strained. Inflation has picked up, driven by food price increases initially and by non-food inflation more recently. Notwithstanding rebound in garment exports and remittances, the current...
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Bangladesh has maintained its robust growth performance. Exports and remittances have been buoyant. Agriculture had … expansion has been short of target as private sector credit growth slowed and the Bangladesh Bank siphoned off banking liquidity … future productivity growth. This report provides an assessment of the state of the Bangladesh economy, outlook, risks, and …
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Bangladesh economic expansion continued in FY19, supported by rising exports and record remittances. Inflation remained …. The current account deficit declined with higher export and lower import growth. Bangladesh Bank interventions moderated …
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This report was prepared for the PRSP Implementation Forum (November 15-17), in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It covers recent …, Finance and Trade, Public Administration, Infrastructure and Human Development. The report notes that Bangladesh has some … relatively favorable development outcomes. The report specifically details Bangladesh's progress on the governance agenda …
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-term policy and investment priorities that will support Bangladesh to continue progress in building resilience to the effects of … climate change. Section 1 describes Bangladesh's vulnerability to the effects of climate change and outlines estimates of the … cost of mitigation and adaptation investments through 2030. Section 2 lays out the Government of Bangladesh's existing …
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-term policy and investment priorities that will support Bangladesh to continue progress in building resilience to the effects of … climate change. Section 1 describes Bangladesh's vulnerability to the effects of climate change and outlines estimates of the … cost of mitigation and adaptation investments through 2030. Section 2 lays out the Government of Bangladesh's existing …
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Liberia's status as a fragile state is deeply rooted in the political and economic exclusion practiced by the country's founders. Although they constituted just 5 percent of the population, freed American slaves and their descendants dominated the country's intellectual and ruling class from...
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Favorable global economic conditions supported a turnaround in economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2017, easing pressure on weak policy frameworks. Output growth rebounded to an estimated 2.6 percent after decelerating to 1.5 percent in 2016 amid challenging external and domestic...
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The Afghanistan Development Update is a twice-annual publication providing analysis of recent developments and presenting the World Bank team's most-recent macroeconomic projections. The August 2018 edition focuses on the state of the economy in the context of upcoming elections, and the...
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To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, development institutions will need to leverage an unprecedented amount of private sector capital. This is more pressing in the current context as COVID-19 recoveries will require mobilizing both public and private sources in the short...
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